Lead pharmacist

This role will involve the leading on all aspectsof medicines management within the Leeds GP Confederation. The role will be to supportcolleagues working within services and delivering contracts and provide pharmacyleadership and oversight of medicines management. This includes within thedevelopment of new services and opportunities.

This role will involve the leading of the clinicalpharmacy team within the Leeds GP Confederation. The success applicant willprovide all aspects of professional leadership to all members of the pharmacyteam. This role will support the assurance of quality and prioritise patientsafety. Engagement and close working with the wider Leeds GP Confederationteams will be an essential aspect of this role ensuring quality, safe,evidence-based and cost effective services are provided. Additional aspects ofthis role will be to support the Leeds GP Confederation in other aspects ofservice development where services are being discussed and developed.

This post will require enthusiasm, self-motivationand commitment to forge excellent communication between primary/PCN, communityand secondary care teams and drive the work of the Leeds GP Confederationforward. The lead pharmacist willprovide leadership, support and line management functions where required.

Main duties of the job

Key Relationships

Actively works towards developingand maintaining effective working relationships both within and out with the organisation.

Fosters and maintains stronglinks with all services across the Leeds Health and Care Partnership.

Explores the potential forcollaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain suchrelationships.

Uses negotiation and influencing skills to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders.

About us

The Leeds GP Confederation has three purposes:

• Supporting practice resilience and PCN developmentWe provide expert resource for individual practices in the city to remain viable and resilient, as well as supporting the collective development of primary care networks. Our data, tools, facilitation, and guidance all help you maximise your impact.
• Being a voice for primary care in LeedsLeeds GP Confederation acts as a single, unified voice for general practice across Leeds. We do this by firstly gathering and representing local general practice views. Secondly, we provide a range of ways for practices and PCNs to contribute to priorities in the Leeds place-based partnership arrangements.
• Delivering services & initiatives Finally, we host at-scale NHS contracts and deliver training and education programmes. Our wealth of experience working with local partners and delivering high quality services means we can provide practices with additional patient access. In turn, this makes better use of NHS resources and means we can reinvest any profits back into local general practice.

Job responsibilities

Core Functions

To lead andcoordinate the Leeds GP Confederations medicines management processes relevantto all delivered and developing services.

To professionallylead the pharmacy workforce working within Leeds GP Confederation services.

To enable improvedquality of care, personalised care and patient experience.

To ensure appropriateprocesses and governance is embedded and adequate to keep patients, colleaguesand the organisation safe

To provide clinicalleadership to ensure high quality and cost effective care.

Work autonomously yetcollaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

To analyse and interpret complexinformation and communicate this information using a variety of methods topatients, carers and other health professionals to promote a safe and high qualityservice.

Toprovide specialised advice and support in risk management, clinical governanceissues and ensure compliance with relevant legislationand regulatory frameworks and other established good practices to manage andminimise risk.

To maintain anddevelop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with evidenceand best practice, and local and national service, legislation and policydevelopments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participatein the appraisal process.

Escalate concerns andrisks, whilst also sharing learning and supporting colleagues to improveservice quality, efficiency and safety.

Act as theorganisational lead for nonmedical prescribing, providing strategic oversight,clinical governance, and expert advice to ensure safe, effective, and compliantprescribing practice across services.

Leadthe assurance of controlled drugs, including policy development, audit,incident management and regulatory compliance, ensuring safe and effectiveprescribing and use in line with legislation and national guidance.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities

Line management and leadership ofcolleagues as required, setting direction, objectives, ensuring all teammembers have clarity of roles and responsibilities. Dealing with all employee/worker relationissues for direct reports e.g. disciplinary, grievance, sickness, appraisal.

Support for the wider team tohelp support high quality clinical care

Liaises with PCNs, GPs, managers andother external stakeholders to support the work of the Leeds GP Confederationsservices and colleagues.

Planning and Organisational Responsibilities

Produce timely reports andpapers, using relevant appropriate IT packages where required. This should becarried out to agreed criteria and plans developed for correcting mitigatingcircumstances if targets not achieved.

To lead and develop pharmacyrelated quality improvement work.

To plan and organise ownworkload, including project work and support for members of the Confeds team, multidisciplinary team (MDT),PCN, practice team, Local Care Partnerships, patients, carers, etc within theirscope of practice.

To attend local, regional andnational meetings of relevance

To deputise for Senior members ofthe team, as appropriate.

Managing Resources Responsibilities

Ensures the effective andefficient use of resources within their own sphere of responsibility.

Towork to ensure best value for money within services delivered and beingdeveloped.

Standard Paragraphs

It is the responsibility of each member of staff to maintainconfidentiality at all times.

Staff must be aware of and adhere to the provisions of the Health andSafety at Work Act and to ensure their own safety and the safety of colleaguesand patients.

Individuals must ensure the statutory and mandatory trainingrequirements that are relevant to the post are completed within agreedtimeframes

Staff should be aware of their individual responsibilities under theEqual Opportunities Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of thepolicy.

Manages Self

Maintains the highest standards of conduct andintegrity within organisation adhering to relevant Codes of Conduct.

Participate in the organisations appraisal system,matching organisational aims with individual objectives.

Takes responsibility for own and others health andsafety in the working environment.

Complies with all organisational and statutoryrequirements.

Ensures that a professional service and image ismaintained at all times.

Leads in line with agreed values.

Equality & Diversity

Able toadjust communication effectively to meet the needs of a diverse group ofstakeholders

Well-developedunderstanding of equality, diversity and human rights issues and an ability tocommunicate these clearly to a broad range of stakeholders

Activelydelivers projects that address inequality and/or improve equality outcomes forstakeholders and /or workforce.

SafeguardingChildren

Undersection 11 of the Children Act 2004 all NHS staff must ensure that theirfunctions are discharged with regard to the need to safeguard and promote thewelfare of children

All staffneed to ensure, as part of their work with children and families and withadults who are parents or carers who are experiencing personal problems, thatthe needs of the children are considered and thatwhere necessary they areassessed and appropriate referrals are made.

It isincumbent on all staff to ensure that they undertake safeguarding childrentraining in line with organisational policy and in line with agreedcurrent/latest guidance.

Safeguarding Adults

All staff must comply with mandatory trainingrequirements and ensure that adult safeguarding is embedded as an essentialpart of their daily practice. Safeguarding is everyones business and staffwithin the organisation have a particular responsibility to ensure allsafeguarding concerns are responded to effectively and efficiently inaccordance with the local Safeguarding Adults Board Policy and Procedure.

Person Specification

• Practical & Intellectual Skills.
• Able to think conceptually; recognising assumptions, interpreting and evaluating arguments and deducing inferences.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions.
• Able to think on their feet when dealing with issues and problems
• Computer literate with an ability to use the required systems/office packages.
• Able to analyse and interpret data to draw conclusions.
• Able to effectively manage resources (financial and others) to ensure delivery of a service/project.
• Able to provide, receive, convey and present information in a clear way.
• Able to plan complex medicines management projects and programmes.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Training- Evidence of significant personal development, professionally and managerially.
• Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work.
• Has a responsive, solution focused approach to addressing issues and barriers.
• Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a stakeholder focused response.
• Able to build and sustain relationships, actively involving stakeholders where appropriate.
• Able to regulate behaviour even when provoked.
• Is open and honest and acts with integrity.
• Able to work both independently where required and as a team and corporate player.
• Is open to change and possible alternatives to doing things differently.
• Credible, trustworthy and able to inspire confidence in other
• Enthusiastic about area of work and achieving results
• Conscientious; able and keen to deliver best possible quality at all times.
• Able to manage conflict in order to bring about positive outcomes.
• Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service and ensure a stakeholder focussed response.
• Independently mobile in order to be able to work across a number of sites and travel to meet with stakeholders.
• Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments if required.
• Knowledge of ePACT data and analysis

Experience

• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Evidence of significant personal development, professionally and managerially.
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with external agencies/stakeholder.
• Understanding and knowledge of the workings of the NHS, the challenges it faces and of the reform agenda.
• Experience of working in the NHS.
• Up to date clinical knowledge.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Able to work as part of a team and also independently.
• Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information.
• Able to provide and receive highly complex/contentious optimisation/therapeutic information to a multi-professional audience.
• Experience of leading and managing staff.
• Knowledge and experience of programme and/or project management.
• Experience of working in GP practices and with GP computer systems (Systmone and Emis).
• Experience of using performance management/improvement systems.

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) + 1 year pre-registration training.
• Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training.
• Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Registered non-medical prescriber.
• Post graduate Clinical Diploma

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Leeds GP Confederation, Building 3 White Rose Office Park

Contract

Permanent

Reference number

B0348-26-0031

Job locations

Leeds GP Confederation, Building 3 White Rose Office Park